The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-11


100000 in elementary education in voluL-
'tary schools.
Mother, have got any children" asked
little Johnny Fizzletop. why, no. child;
what put that into your head?" Il read
in the Bible about children's children.
That's what put it in my head"
Minister Go laymau)-But why do you
say that Mr.. Smith is a good man? He
rarely appears at church. Layman-I
know he doesn't appear at church very
often, but Bradstreet's quots him A 1.
Dayton, Ohio, has a novelty in the shape
of converted policeman. 1t is scarcely
necessary to add that the convert has gone
into the evangelistic business, is drawing
large houses and taking liberal collections.
Rev. A. Morrison has come to grief the
past week in Baltimore. He stole horse,
was convicted, and the jury gave him seven
years in the State penitentiary. He had
been in trouble before, and his past record
probably had something to do with the Sc
verify OF the sentence.
Rev. w. K. Eddy and Mrs. G. +. Brown,
writing from Sidon, Syria, describe re-
Gently discovered tombs and sarcophsgi
found in cave near that place as equaling
any known. The paintings and scuIptured
representations show them to be the tombs
of warriors and hunters.
on the seven brothers mentioned in the
Bible, who one after another married the
same woman, as each one died the brother
next younger marrying the widow. For
PHYS sake I" cried the eight-year. old boy,
how long did the widow last?"
Charlie, after his evening prayer, was
adding some improvised petitions. He
prayed impartially, as his memory served,
for all his friends, for the people next
door and around the corner, and added,
with the same intently distracted tone, 81
won't pray for old DR.. Harris folks, for we
don't visit them"
An agent from Rome, under sanction of
the Pope, is on his way to the United States
to collect money to build an Irish national
church in that city, 10 be dedicated to the
patron saint Of the Green Isle. He will ar
rive early in the month, SO that those in
clined can commence saving their money
to welcome him.
Lost time" said the pastor, solemnly,
sis lost forever" 80 is anything else
that you lose" said the new boy from Bit
ter Greek. ooh, no." said the pastor; ''you
may lose anything else and find it again. :"
''Then faint lost" said the new boy, and
somehow the minister didn't Just exactly
know how to go on with the conversation.
And yet he had been warned against that
very boy.
Omaha Parson-If you had taken correct
views of this earthly existence you would
not low be i'll. Look at the Quakers. They
are the longest-lived people in the world.
Omaha Mani never thought of that.
They undoubtedly are. Statistics prove
1t. Now, my friend, let your own reason
explain why it is So" "Well, they don't
have to sit in draughty churches three times
a week with their hats off,"
In ON Enicnorol Jiooaca IF in
church union society" has been organ
lied, the object of which Is to foster de-
sire for the corporate union" of all
christians on the basis laid down by the
house of bishops in Chicago. 1t will be
interesting, and it may be hoped that it
will prove instructive TO see how such a
society will 20 to work to accomplish its
object.
Make was the little x-year-old daughter
of clergyman who had taken great pains
with her religious instruction, and had
held before her the goodness of the Supreme
Being, so that she could have in her mind
always his kindness and mercy. as well as
power. .One morning her mother, passing
the open door of the room in which the
child was playing, saw Miss Make stand
ing on chair before the mirror, with her
face close to it, scrutinizing her little phiz
with great earnestness, and with long sigh
she remarked: 81 don't see how God could
have gwen me such a nose when he knows
how particular / am"
The question whether a clergyman may
wheel his own baby in a perambulator has
been answered for one congregation in
Scotland. One would suppose that he
might, but not so think the people OF an
Edinburgh parish. There clergyman was
seen carrying his baby. His hsrri6ed con-
gregation presented him with a perambu-
lator, but his last state was worse than his
first, for he wheeled this vehicle along the
streets with his baby in it. This insult to
the ''genteeP' susceptibilities of his con-
gregation was too much, and he received a
letter politely informing him that, while
his abilities gave satisfaction, his pastoral
services would be no longer required.
Although under the provision of a stand
ing order of the House of Bishops Bishop
Williams, of Connecticut, succeeds Bishop
Lee as the presiding bishop In the House
of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, he is
not the senior by seven years in the success
sion Of the living American bishops.
Bishop Williams was co1secrated October
90 1851, whereas Bishop Southgate was
consecrated October 90, 1874. But the lat
ter as a resigned bishop has no seat in the
House of Bishops, and consequently does
not come in the line of succession OF pre-
siding bishops. He is living in retirement
at Ravenswood. L. l., in the full possession
of health and mental power, having passed
the limit of three-score and ten by some
five years.